**How can you care?** 'Because I choose to.' **You make it sound so simple.** 'That's because it is simple. Hard sometimes, but simple.'

Saturday, October 04, 2003

Kahvi is sitting in my lap.

Now for most cats, this is not a big deal. But I've had Kahvi since the summer of 1999, and she is the most skittish, don't-touch-me cat I have ever known. She won't let me clip her claws (she's the only cat out of 8 I've lived with that I've seriously considered having declawed); she normally flinches if you try to touch her.

But she jumped into my lap just now.

She's jumped back down, but this is a break-through for her. I hope she does it again.